Compare and Contrast:
A Sunday on La Grande Jatte (1884) and The Blue Forest (1925)
A Sunday on La Grande Jatte, painted by Georges Seurat in 1884, and The Blue Forest, created by Max Ernst in 1925, share resemblance as well as differences in both the formal elements and the context of art history in which they were created. La Grande Jatte depicts groups of people enjoying their leisure time on La Grande Jatte. Seurat was a Neo-Impressionist artist, who was fascinated with the scientific representation of optical light and color. His use of divisionism and pointillism is an application of scientific painting technique to the popular subject matter of leisure time of middle class people. Ernst, on the other hand, was a Dada artist, embracing new techniques and art forms, combining the idea of readymade and …show more content…
In both La Grande Jatte and The Blue Forest, the unique painting techniques are the most important features to the artworks, which can be found in the formal elements of the two paintings, since they successfully reflecting the philosophy of each art movement.
First of all, the different imageries of the paintings represent different approaches of Seurat’s neo-impressionism and Ernst’s Dadaism, especially through the different depiction of the trees. The imageries of the two paintings both include the nature, forests in specific, but people are involved in La Grande Jatte, and the depiction of the subject matter is more realistic compare to The Blue Forest. In La Grande Jatte, the imagery is focused on people from middle class, enjoying their time on the La Grande Jatte. Yet each of them is not interacting with one another, showing a sense of isolation and loneliness. The nature in the painting, however, serves as a background, as the focus is the crowd of people. Impressionism and Neo-Impressionism serve as a transition from traditional academic art in France and period of modern art from 19th century till
A Sunday on La Grande Jatte (1884) and The Blue Forest (1925)
A Sunday on La Grande Jatte, painted by Georges Seurat in 1884, and The Blue Forest, created by Max Ernst in 1925, share resemblance as well as differences in both the formal elements and the context of art history in which they were created. La Grande Jatte depicts groups of people enjoying their leisure time on La Grande Jatte. Seurat was a Neo-Impressionist artist, who was fascinated with the scientific representation of optical light and color. His use of divisionism and pointillism is an application of scientific painting technique to the popular subject matter of leisure time of middle class people. Ernst, on the other hand, was a Dada artist, embracing new techniques and art forms, combining the idea of readymade and …show more content…
In both La Grande Jatte and The Blue Forest, the unique painting techniques are the most important features to the artworks, which can be found in the formal elements of the two paintings, since they successfully reflecting the philosophy of each art movement.
First of all, the different imageries of the paintings represent different approaches of Seurat’s neo-impressionism and Ernst’s Dadaism, especially through the different depiction of the trees. The imageries of the two paintings both include the nature, forests in specific, but people are involved in La Grande Jatte, and the depiction of the subject matter is more realistic compare to The Blue Forest. In La Grande Jatte, the imagery is focused on people from middle class, enjoying their time on the La Grande Jatte. Yet each of them is not interacting with one another, showing a sense of isolation and loneliness. The nature in the painting, however, serves as a background, as the focus is the crowd of people. Impressionism and Neo-Impressionism serve as a transition from traditional academic art in France and period of modern art from 19th century till